Posts tagged with ‘BIG Questions’

So many scientific studies are making incorrect claims that a new service has sprung up to fact-check reported findings...

Human history more than matches the best soap operas and Hollywood thrillers. The latest blockbuster is a tale of...

Two teams of researchers have extended the reach of quantum teleportation to unprecedented lengths, roughly equivalent to the distance...

As it turns out, Mars and Earth may be more similar than previously thought in one momentous way: Mars...

A greater commitment to multidisciplinary research, and to local problem solving, is essential to achieving future development goals. UN...

After a full week on the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is celebrating with a little rest and...

A first-of-its-kind “crowdsourced and crowdfunded” archaeological dig at Cambridgeshire’s Flag Fen has finished. It is the site of a...

Singing mice (Scotinomys teguina) are not your average lab rats. Their fur is tawny brown instead of the common...

The sought-after equanimity of “living in the moment” may be impossible, according to neuroscientists who’ve pinpointed a brain area...

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered, for the first time in any animal species, a type of “selfish”...